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Cotsen Children's Library: Pooping, Mewling and Puking: Iona Opie’s Babies: An Unsentimental Anthology (1990) Cotsen Ch...
08/02/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: Pooping, Mewling and Puking: Iona Opie’s Babies: An Unsentimental Anthology (1990) Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University University Library

“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock (1948), chapter 2. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in his nurse’s arms.” Shakespeare, As …

Cotsen Children's Library: The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Prin...
08/02/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

The BiblioFiles Presents: Victoria Ying Posted on August 2, 2022 by Dana Sheridan Just posted! A BiblioFiles interview with graphic novelist Victoria Ying, creator of City of Secrets and its sequel, City of Illusion. In City of Secrets we meet two children, Ever Barnes and Hannah Morgan. Ever is an....

Dancing for Joy: The Slave Trade Has Been AbolishedCotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University ...
06/20/2022

Dancing for Joy: The Slave Trade Has Been Abolished
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

In 1829, the Irish-born writer Edward Mangin (1772-1852) had thirteen half-penny chapbooks just 83 mm tall bound up for a present. Twelve published by Philip Rose in Bristol and one by J. and C. E…

Two Hearts: Explaining Pregnancy to Soviet Children Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Librar...
06/14/2022

Two Hearts: Explaining Pregnancy to Soviet Children
Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

We’re happy to introduce the third post by our special guest blogger: Polina Popova. A PhD candidate in History at the University of Illinois Chicago, Polina specializes in modern Russian and…

Meet the 2022 Special Collections Summer Fellow for Firestone Library Princeton University Library
06/11/2022

Meet the 2022 Special Collections Summer Fellow for Firestone Library Princeton University Library

Name: Kate Mitchell Education Background: I recently graduated from Rutgers University with my Master’s in Information Science with a concentration in archives and preservation. I also did my under…

Cotsen Children's Library: Before Animal Videos Went Viral: Fast Friends and False in Andrew Lang’s Animal Story Book (...
06/08/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: Before Animal Videos Went Viral: Fast Friends and False in Andrew Lang’s Animal Story Book (1896) Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

Any old family vacation house by the sea should have a neglected cache of old books somewhere and I discovered one in the second story bedroom, where I picked out The Animal Story Book edited by …

This Side of Metadata: Special Collections PACSCL DEI Internship Princeton University Library
06/06/2022

This Side of Metadata: Special Collections PACSCL DEI Internship Princeton University Library

This Spring, Special Collections participated as a host institution in a PACSCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries)-sponsored semester-long, pilot DEI internship program…

Cotsen Children's Library: Party Line! Listen in on Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales Cotsen Children's Library, Princeto...
05/29/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: Party Line! Listen in on Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

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Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures IllustratedCotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princ...
05/09/2022

Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

There’s no magic in the rags-to-riches story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, shown at the left at the height of his fame from a chapbook ca. 1808 published by T. Sabine and son (…

Cotsen Children's Library: Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated Cotsen Children's Librar...
05/05/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: Whittington and His Cat: The Encounter Between Cultures Illustrated Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Princeton University Library

There’s no magic in the rags-to-riches story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, shown at the left at the height of his fame from a chapbook ca. 1808 published by T. Sabine and son (…

Cotsen Children's Library: Marks in Books 13: A Drawing of a Rose in Mrs. Sherwood’s The Re-captured Negro Cotsen Child...
03/10/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: Marks in Books 13: A Drawing of a Rose in Mrs. Sherwood’s The Re-captured Negro Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University University Library

It’s easier to find doodles, scribbles, and inscriptions in children’s books than polished drawings. When I discover one, I always hope that it will provide some insight into the artist, who presu…

Cotsen Children's Library: A Rare Print Makes A Poor Fan But A Great Find!Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton Universi...
03/02/2022

Cotsen Children's Library: A Rare Print Makes A Poor Fan But A Great Find!
Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University
Princeton University Library

I came across the above item while rummaging through a box of unprocessed prints. I was immediately struck by the unusual semi-circle shape of the paper. Then, I was taken in by the details of the …

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